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A plant-based burger. Lab-grown meat is made from animal cells
by colobas 7y ago
A plant-based burger. Lab-grown meat is made from animal cells
- ghaff 7y agoThe "lab-grown" term is [EDIT: sometimes and apparently incorrectly] used for plant-based meat substitutes like Impossible Burger. It probably shouldn't be, but it is.
- matthewmacleod 7y agoI honestly don’t think there can be any argument there. Plant-based meat substitutes have been around for a long time, are emphatically not “lab grown meat”, and I have never heard anybody refer to them as such. That’s a distinct category which has also been receiving a lot of attention in the past few years.
- ghaff 7y agoFor example: https://www.cnet.com/news/meet-impossible-foods-lab-grown-veggie-burger-it-bleeds/ https://www.cnet.com/news/meet-impossible-foods-lab-grown-ve... http://www.makery.info/en/2018/05/07/jai-teste-limpossible-burger-a-la-viande-de-synthese/ http://www.makery.info/en/2018/05/07/jai-teste-limpossible-b... I expect with actual lab-grown meat substitutes starting to get attention, people are more precise to distinguish between the substitutes today.
- zodiac 7y agoThese say "lab-grown veggie burger" and "lab-grown Impossible Burger" but never "lab-grown meat"
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- neltnerb 7y agoI have never heard anyone so confused that they can't tell the difference between "animal that was never alive" and "made from vegetable products". This isn't confusing, and I will need evidence to believe that it is "widely used". I don't think I've ever even heard someone attempt to conflate the two before you. But I acknowledge that just because this is completely obvious to me and I've never met someone who was confused about the difference doesn't mean they don't exist.
- ghaff 7y agoI honestly don't care what people call the different types of meat substitutes. Plant-based meat seems a bit odd to me because it's not, you know, meat. But it seems to be the term in use. Yes, I understand that there is a difference between grown from meat cells and made from plants with components that make it look and taste more like meat.
- ceejayoz 7y agoI haven't seen many offerings saying plant-based meat. I've seen plant-based burger, plant-based sausage, etc.
- ghaff 7y agoThere are only 579,000 results for that phrase from a Google search. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22plant-based+meat%22&oq=%22plant-based+meat%22&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.4452j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22plant-based+meat%22&oq=%2...
- ceejayoz 7y ago102,000 of those are "plant-based meat alternatives". 46,700 are for "plant-based meat substitutes". I'd imagine there are quite a few other synonyms that continue to winnow it down.
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- hombre_fatal 7y agoI guarantee you that people are only doing this by accident when you see it. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lab-grown-meat/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lab-grown-meat/ I, too, used to confuse Memphis Meats with Impossible Food / Beyond Meat. It's just that news of lab-grown meat and outfits like Impossible Food kinda sprung up at the same time in the news within the last 5 years and it's easy to confuse the endeavors. In fact, I see this misconception enough that I think IF/BM benefit from the confusion.